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I’ve reached a point where most of what I need to track my writing and sales is working in the software. The next step is to test everything thoroughly. So I will be able to track the orders when I buy books that I need for events. And track the sales that I make at those events. The software will use the order that has the lowest cost per book to increase the profit. It will be much easier to keep track of my writing activities when this software works correctly.

I’ve been thinking about Vestaria and what needs to be done to change the point of view. It is going to take a lot of work and rewriting to get it there--so that will be my task for the rest of this year and into next until April, when I hope to publish it.

Events

My book signing went well. I spend six days in the store for three hours each day. The first day, I got the time wrong and was an hour late, so I only got two hours that day. I had a total of 17 hours of selling and sold 20 books.

I have submitted a schedule for June. I will spend three hours at a different store for six days. I plan to try different stores each month and see which store I do the best in. I have a lot of options—different days, hours, and lengths of time at different stores. It should be interesting.

The critique group is still going with interesting topics at each meeting. I am enjoying it.

Personal

We took a week of vacation last week; it was a good break from everything. When we got back, it was work, work, work… I have a ton of work in the yard to get to, so I will be scheduling a few days each week to work on that. So much to do. I wonder how I was able to do it all while I worked every day—seems I had more time then than I do now. Go figure…

Denise is thinking about getting another cat. We might be back to six cats soon. You never know…

Updated June 5, 2025